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Work Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
- As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really…
- The quiet people just do their work.
- The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when…
- The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
- A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
- Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention…
- Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction.…
- I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that…
- There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which…
- When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel…
- When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach